Just when I had finally managed to interact a little with that fragmentary consciousness, my consciousness was thrown out of the Consciousness Ocean.
Forced out of the dream and awake in reality, the sight before my eyes was not a spaceship's hibernation pod, but a capsule-shaped... pod chair?
The clothes on my body were no longer that silver-white combat suit. Instead, I wore a plain sleeveless white dress that looked somewhat like a surgical gown.
But the pod door was tightly sealed. I would have to force it open to get out.
Just as I thought that, the pod chair's door opened automatically, as though it really feared I would tear it apart.
"Is this... reality?"
This was a space full of contradictions. The ceiling and walls were fitted with highly futuristic pipes and circuitry, yet the building's main structure was made of yellowish-gray stone.
The room was large, but aside from the pod chair I had been lying in, there was nothing else.
"Where exactly is this? Is anyone here?"
I left the room barefoot, but there was still no sign of anyone outside.
Though the building had the colors of earth and stone, the walls and floor had none of soil's graininess when I touched them. They were smooth and delicate, and they really did look brand-new...
Mi Xue had created the New World.
Was this also some corner of the New World?
Obviously, that Consciousness Fragment had brought me here.
It had shouted, "Wake up!" and then I appeared here.
However, judging by what it had been trying to say, I had been here from the very beginning. Everything I had experienced before had merely been a dream within a fabricated reality?
But that was impossible. How could a dream be so real?
On the contrary, this